Great Ghost Stories
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 641
ISBN-13: 9780753705728
Subjects: Horror & ghost stories
Description: A young housewife dreams of committing murder by telepathy; an executed man cannot rest until he confesses his terrible secret; sceptical doubters all over the world encounter unknown forces they cannot explain away...

Great Ghost Stories is a volume filled with strange sights, spirits, words and actions from beyond the grave. This rich and diverse collection brings together some of the best spooky writing of all time, with stories by Washington Irving, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Alexander Pushkin and O. Henry among others. From the haunting horror of Edgar Allan Poe, to the kindly probing of G.K. Chesterton's detective priest Father Brown, these stories of human and inhuman passions and follies will delight all those who savour a tinge of the macabre and the sinister with their night-time reading.
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Table of contents: title: The diver / A.J. Alan; title: The ghoul of Golders Green / Michael Arlen; title: The murder of the Mandarin / Arnold Bennett; title: Powers of the air / J.D. Beresford; title: Keeping his promise / Algernon Blackwood; title: Dearth's farm / Gerald Bullett; title: The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton; title: -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad; title: The tiger / A.E. Coppard; title: The looking glass / Walter de la Mare; title: The hostelry / Guy de Maupassant; title: A large diamond / Lord Dunsany; title: The cupboard / Jeffery Farnol; title: The other sense / J.S. Fletcher; title: Ghost of honour / Pamela Hansford Johnson; title: Roads of destiny / O. Henry; title: The trapdoor / C.D. Heriot; title: Ben Blower's story / C.F. Hoffman; title: The shadow of a shade / Tom Hood; title: The dwarfs / Aldous Huxley; title: Guests from Gibbet Island / Washington Irving; title: The mezzotint / M.R. James; title: The dancing partner / Jerome K. Jerome; title: The woman who rode away / D.H. Lawrence; title: Honolulu / Somerset Maugham; title: Rooum / Oliver Onions; title: The green light / Barry Pain; title: The iron pineapple / Eden Phillpotts; title: The demon king / J.B. Priestley; title: The queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin; title: The seventh man / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; title: Laura / Saki; title: Goat-cry, girl-cry / W.B. Seabrook; title: The mahatma's story / May Sinclair; title: Deep in the forest / H. de Vere Stacpoole; title: The Island of Voices / R.L. Stevenson; title: Man of the night / Edgar Wallace; title: Major Wilbraham / Hugh Walpole; title: The inexperienced ghost / H.G. Wells; title: The confessions of Charles Linkworth / E.F. Benson; title: A visitor from down under / L.P. Hartley; title: The voice in the night / W.H. Hodgson; title: Berenice / Edgar Allen Poe